Expressions and Perspectives

I got a little excited with the expressions, and added too much blur. As a result, I got to watch a thin blue bar creep across my monitor for three hours.

It took a long time to figure out how to use the expressions, but once I figured it out, I immediately recognized how much time they can save in the long run.

Expressions are really awesome. They open a whole new world of control and finesse.

For my perspective project, I made some minor tweeks to tighten it up. I removed the heart because it was the one image I created. I think using only existing imagery, and further handicapping my ability to inject a narrative, will make this project more successful.

Perspective

Lately Ive been interested in how language forms meaning in our brains. With this project, I am exploring how symbols can function to create meaning, and how similar icons can work in union to create a sense of disjuncture of perception.

The head is divided into lateral slices and the monitors are layed out consecutively—referencing medical imaging, and the almost scientific perspective that I am approaching project from. The artwork is clean and simple.

Only two monitors face the same direction, so it becomes impossible to see the entire project simultaneously. By the time a viewer can shift from one set of monitors to the other, the symbols will have changed. 

Project

I was playing with the idea of how sound can have illustrative and narrative properties. Partly inspired by poetry class, the monkey creates its form from the spoken words, then the animal animates its self based on the sound effects. Finally, the description is read again, and the monkey fades, demonstrating the temporality of the spoken and written word, and the sematic attachment to them.

My Character

I am continuing my investigation of motion and its ability to reinfoce content. I chose to create a very simple figure that looks like how I used to draw to people in kindergarten. I want to explore what can be done with a simple figure, and how he can be used, by himself and in multiple to reinforce content in a piece.

Proj01_Sentence

For this project I tried to explore how text functions in a moving environment, and how the physical motion of the text can be utilized as a layer of content in a piece.

The piece begins with the word communicate falling from above. As it falls it gets quicker, and more chaotic. Then, these black boxes come in and obsucre the communication. The boxes then explode, revealing the word 'chaos.'

As we become more and more saturated in a visual environment, communication can become obscured, and even replaced, by chaos.

Proj01

The 3d didn't work like I expected, so I kind of scaled down the implementation of it for this project.

Here is my comp screen:

the word sincere appears first. It has nice, organic white ornamentation around it that begins to write on. The camera pans in slow. As the ornament is revealing itself the stroke of it turns to gray and then to black.  While the stroke is changing color, it begins to become more chaotic, until it eventually consumes the word "communication" in a cloud of blackness. While the stroke is transition from calm to chaotic, the camera, too, begins to behave more eradically, eventually becoming so shaky, that the screen becomes nealy illegibl. After the whole word is obscure, the camera stop shaking, and the could begins to fade. Left behind, is the word "chaos."

3D nesting my @$$

Here is my working window before I disabled the camera in the comp. You can see from the side view that this is not keeping it's 3D properties.

Here we are with the came in the nested composition deleted:

All of the 3d ability is now lost.

I think after composing with precomps the composition seems to become psuedo 3d.